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02-Sep-2001 -- This confluence is easy to get to from either Alberta or
Saskatchewan. As I found out with my travels along the
Canada/US border on the August long weekend, the Alberta/
Saskatchewan border is not exactly where we think it is.

The Alberta Act and the Saskatchewan Act of 1905 place
the border at 110W (4th meridian), but the border as it
exists today is slightly west. At 52N, it is about 120 m
west. The government of Saskatchewan has a Game Refuge
on the south side of a road which runs about 240 m south
of the confluence, and on the north side of this road is
a survey marker. There is nothing on the marker to
indicate its position (usually we have to look this up
from a serial number or something), but since it lines up
with a fence line placed for the government of Saskatchewan,
I think it is meant to lie on the official boundary.

The point 52° 0' 0.0"N and 110° 0' 0.0"W is at an elevation of
708 m according to my GPS unit. As I've travelled north
more or less along the border, the vegetation looks to have
a little more life. But things are still very dry in this
area.